Camille Marquand

Based in Greece, I now divide my time between Athens, Crete and England so I am a European (though English born) artist, who found my artistic voice in my Edinburgh (Scotland) WASPS collective studio. Here I was able to experiment, combining abstraction with figurative painting in oils on canvases that I stretched and framed myself. The light reflecting nature of oil paint, its smell and texture have appealed to me from toddlerhood when I helped 'finish' my father's painting on his lunch break! So, from then on, art was my thing. Self taught in most things, but inspired by others (Picasso, Manet and the impressionists and then Scottish artists like Elizabeth Blackadder), I started drawing in childhood. Gradually through my twenties and thirties, I came to painting in oils and acrylics, making cut out board figures often as commissions. My degree was also self taught in a way through the wonderful Open University, whose History of Art courses I did within a general Arts profile. I conceived the ambition to be an artist by the time I was forty and in 1991 had my first solo show at the Library, Surrey University. Moving to Scotland in 1995, I enjoyed having a studio and taking part in the rich artistic life of Edinburgh. I moved to t...

BA Hons, Open University UK

In 2022 I had a solo show of oil paintings and watercolours in Kissamos, Crete. In 2023 I had a solo show of Cretan watercolours in the heart of Athens. I have been exhibiting regularly in Athens in group exhibitions since 2020.
Before that I had my first solo show at the University of Surrey, UK in 1991; I was exhibiting in group shows in the UK from 1996 to 2010.